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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

What is Vaccinia?


Vaccinia

Way back in the olden days
It happened that some dairy maids
Touched the ailed udders of a cow
And none of them were very pleased
To catch from it a skin disease
Which gave them blisters and a furrowed brow

Cowpox was the malady
That put the maidens I'll at ease
A virus passed on from the cow to them
Related to vaccinia
But not so much to tinea
A shame there were no latex gloves back then!


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